{"id":129841,"date":"2026-03-05T00:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129841\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T00:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:06:07","slug":"historic-sites-in-scranton-weatherly-statewide-free-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129841\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic sites in Scranton, Weatherly, statewide free on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Admission is free Sunday at the Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum in Scranton and Eckley Miners\u2019 Village in Weatherly, among other historic sites across the state.<\/p>\n<p>Along with special events in Harrisburg, it is a celebration of the 345th anniversary of the founding of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>The original charter granted to William Penn by English King Charles II will be displayed at the Pennsylvania State Archives in Harrisburg. It is typically displayed once a year.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be activities at the State Museum of Pennsylvania, also in Harrisburg, in connection with the display \u201cRevolutionary Things: Objects from the Collection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the complete list of sites with free admission and details, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/phmc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pa.gov\/agencies\/phmc<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Admission is free Sunday at the Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum in Scranton and Eckley Miners\u2019 Village in Weatherly,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,803,28,178,180,179,289,181,729],"class_list":["post-129841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-stt","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}